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Multiline Text symbols ibn ArcGIS JavaScript API

ManishkumarPatel — Wed, 19 Mar 2014 10:13:55 GMT

Hi,

It would be nice to have an option for providing multiline text symbols.
var smTxt = "Line 1 text here \n Line 2 text here";
var textSymbol = new esri.symbols.TextSymbol(smTxt, font, new dojo.Color([0, 0, 0, 1]));

Results is displayed as below:

Line 1 text here \n Line 2 text here

Instead should be displayed as below:

Line 1 text here
Line 2 text here

A simple idea may save lot of time for handling this kind of situtations.

Hoping this implements soon.

Best Regards,
Manish Patel

Re: Multiline Text symbols ibn ArcGIS JavaScript API

John_S — Thu, 20 Mar 2014 21:54:47 GMT

The Javascript how you describe it working is working correctly. \n does not mean anything except \n in javascript / html. \n is the new line character for python, so when you're calculating, scripting, labeling, etc... using python, you definitely want \n to create a new line. In javascript / html the new line is handled by the break tab <br />. If you need a new line, you should either use the break tag as you're constructing the string or if your string already has \n in it, you should run a find and replace to replace the \n with the break html tag.

Re: Multiline Text symbols ibn ArcGIS JavaScript API

SimonUyttendaele — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 08:58:54 GMT

See : https://github.com/Chaussette/esri.symbol.MultiLineTextSymbol

Lets hope esri includes this in the API officially...